prfctlyximprct
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Without. Now they will fit in my car cup-holder! No more spilled coffee on my legs! 
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Refillable Mug at WDW: With Handle or Without?
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DisAl
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When I am at Disney I am not in my car..... I prefer something that is more user friendly while I am at Disney. I have plenty of other mugs that fit the cup holders in my car.
allgiggles
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My thoughts exactly. If someone wants a mug/tumbler with no handle for their car, they can go to the Dollar Store, Walmart, Target, any grocery store in the country, thrift stores, and the list goes on and on and buy one there. A handle on the Disney mug makes it much easier to use *at Disney* where they are purchased for the purpose of being able to easily carry them around the resort. I wouldn't buy a refillable Disney mug with the main intention of using it in my car -- we probably have 5-7 insulated mugs/tumblers without handles at home (all of them gifts).
Swissmiss
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Funny, everyone talks about the car cup holders - I find the handles a pain because I can't stack them in the cupboard!
I realize everyone wants to believe that the decision was solely based on a cost-saving measure, but I ask you to think outside the box and consider that the decision might have first been taken for more operational reasons - such as storing the stock of mugs was taking up too much space. Envisage the size of a box necessary to store a gross of mugs (144) with handles and the size of a box needed to store that number without handles - I would imagine that it would easily be at most only half the size. For a variety of reasons unrelated to the mugs, storage space has become a problem and now I find out in the same amount of space that I could store 144 mugs with handles, I can now store 288 without handles. If I were the decision maker, and someone presented this to me I'd think it was a pretty good idea - all the more so as I find it a pain to store the mugs in my own cupboard because I cannot stack them AND because the maximum number I would need to carry (with or without handles) is 2. So as the final decision maker, I'd say OK to no handles, without ever considering the fact that there are actually people that feel so passionate about the handles. That being said, again, if I were the decision maker, I would consider the possibility of stocking mugs again with handles when the time for reordering mugs came due - meaning that I would have to determine whether having no complaints about mug design weighs against my operational gains. As I am often telling my child "it's not always about you"
I realize everyone wants to believe that the decision was solely based on a cost-saving measure, but I ask you to think outside the box and consider that the decision might have first been taken for more operational reasons - such as storing the stock of mugs was taking up too much space. Envisage the size of a box necessary to store a gross of mugs (144) with handles and the size of a box needed to store that number without handles - I would imagine that it would easily be at most only half the size. For a variety of reasons unrelated to the mugs, storage space has become a problem and now I find out in the same amount of space that I could store 144 mugs with handles, I can now store 288 without handles. If I were the decision maker, and someone presented this to me I'd think it was a pretty good idea - all the more so as I find it a pain to store the mugs in my own cupboard because I cannot stack them AND because the maximum number I would need to carry (with or without handles) is 2. So as the final decision maker, I'd say OK to no handles, without ever considering the fact that there are actually people that feel so passionate about the handles. That being said, again, if I were the decision maker, I would consider the possibility of stocking mugs again with handles when the time for reordering mugs came due - meaning that I would have to determine whether having no complaints about mug design weighs against my operational gains. As I am often telling my child "it's not always about you"
Jon81uk
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I think this is a myth. I would expect Coke give them a great discount, but the free thing doesn't sound right anymore.
LongLiveTheKing
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I know this isn't the thread topic, but having either a removable handle or a selection of handle and handle-less is such a no brainer. I really hope this no handle thing is just testing the market, because any CM reporting to corporate will tell you about all the mugs they see hanging from back packs at Disney World
allgiggles
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I'm pretty sure someone on this board confirmed that a few years ago -- that Disney does indeed pay for the soda/syrup. The person worked for Disney in a capacity where s/he had direct access to that information.
LongLiveTheKing
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They could market and label it as a neutered handle beause that's what it is, lol
LongLiveTheKing
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GoofyDad has taken the red pill and woken up from The Happiest Matrix on Earth. Soon, the Mickey Gestapo will come to his house, confiscate the idea of attatching handles to "NEW AND IMPROVED!!!" Rapid Refill mugs from his head and force him to buy 100 mugs as punishment or else they will lock him in a padded room with It's A Small World blaring endlessly until he complies.As I posted on the OTHER handle/no handle thread (
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allgiggles
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As I posted on the OTHER handle/no handle thread (
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I've read on other boards/FB that these handles work ok but they're not a perfect fit and there can be some "sliding" of the Disney mug when using it. I'm sure Disney will be happy to sell us their own customized version of this handle that fits their mugs/tumblers perfectly.
G00fyDad
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I've read on other boards/FB that these handles work ok but they're not a perfect fit and there can be some "sliding" of the Disney mug when using it. I'm sure Disney will be happy to sell us their own customized version of this handle that fits their mugs/tumblers perfectly.
Thank you. I have not had the opportunity to try one yet. I have several Tervis handles at my house (We LOVE the mugs) and they looked close to the right size. Glad to know they don't fit great.
allgiggles
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Thank you. I have not had the opportunity to try one yet. I have several Tervis handles at my house (We LOVE the mugs) and they looked close to the right size. Glad to know they don't fit great.
Consensus seems to be that they will work, just not perfectly. From what I could piece together, the handles would work for transporting the mugs (like carrying them back to the room), but there were issues when trying to drink from the mug while holding the handle (which could probably be fixed by using a straw if the mug is filled with a cold beverage). I'd certainly think it would be worth bringing the handles along to Disney to try.
G00fyDad
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We might, but I think we may be skipping Disney again next year and going to Universal instead. Pretty sick of all the closures from Disney and the lackadaisical attitude with which they are erecting new things. Then the GMR is going too?? Last straw. We may be waiting a while before dropping thousands on Disney again. Though we are going on a Disney cruise (4 day) next year. Do they have these handle-free mugs on the ships?
Weather_Lady
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FWIW, as someone with no horse in this race, I prefer without a handle.
The fact is, we've gotten them "free" a couple of times when on the DDP but we don't tend to use them. We're not big fountain beverage drinkers, carrying them around is an annoyance, and although I love travel mugs in principle, I only use them for hot beverages, and I don't like drinking hot things out of a plastic cup. On our last trip, we didn't use them or even bother to bring them home -- just left them in the hotel room.
The fact is, we've gotten them "free" a couple of times when on the DDP but we don't tend to use them. We're not big fountain beverage drinkers, carrying them around is an annoyance, and although I love travel mugs in principle, I only use them for hot beverages, and I don't like drinking hot things out of a plastic cup. On our last trip, we didn't use them or even bother to bring them home -- just left them in the hotel room.
